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TITLE

Internal and external factors in child second language acquisition

AUTHOR(S)

Unsworth, Sharon; Hulk, Aafke; Marinis, Theodoros

PUB. DATE

July 2011

SOURCE

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism;2011, Vol. 1 Issue 3, p207

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

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